Palestinian Moral Exceptionalism

Why the World Excuses Terror—When Jews Are the Victims

There is a disturbing kind of moral exceptionalism applied to Palestinians that defies logic and exposes a deeper rot in the way the world processes violence against Jews.

In any Western city, a person who kidnaps babies is an evil criminal. No questions asked. A Palestinian though? A liberator.

A person who slaughters hundreds of young people at a music festival is a mass murderer. But if he calls himself a Palestinian? A freedom fighter.

A person who gang rapes women and mutilates their bodies is a rapist and a pyschopath. A Palestinian? A glorified hero.

Some justify Palestinian atrocities by saying, “But they’re oppressed.” They point to walls, checkpoints, the blockade or raids as proof of oppression—but ignore the suicide bombings, stabbings, massacres and genocidal terrorist groups that made those defenses necessary.

Cause and effect have been masterfully reversed to excuse barbarism. This is how they win the hearts and minds of the ignorant and well-intentioned.

But even if one believes the Palestinians are oppressed, that does not grant them license to torture and slaughter civilians, which is what they’ve been doing since before Israel was even re-established. Before they even adopted the term “Palestinian” for themselves.

And yet—these acts ARE excused, even celebrated, not because they are righteous, but because their victims are Jews. Sorry, I meant “Zionists.” The kind of Jews that believe in their own liberation. The dangerous kind.

That is the quiet part they don’t scream so loud, unless it’s in Arabic and nobody understands them.

After thousands of years of Jews being a truly oppressed minority, the world has grown comfortable with Jewish suffering, a default in the human psyche if you will—so much so that the slaughter of Jews is not just tolerated, but rationalized. Expected.

When the only variable that changes the moral lens is who the victims are, we are no longer talking about justice—we are talking about hate dressed in the co-opted language of liberation.

Antisemitism has learned to shape-shift. It cloaks itself in activism, in academia, in slogans and headlines. But at its core, it’s the same ancient hatred—one that demands Jewish blood as the price for a more “just” future and in this case, for someone else’s freedom, when the only thing the Palestinians need freedom from is their own obsessive hatred.